Advocacy and Lobbying Toolkit!

Advocacy and Lobbying Toolkit

Tools and Resources to help your organization make a difference!

CT Nonprofits has worked with First Experience in The Face of Nonprofits Campaign to honor Connecticut's nonprofit community and to provide tools and resources to help nonprofits make a difference in the thousands of Connecticut residents' lives they serve every year.

The links below open documents that will assist your organization in strategic and tactical advocacy and lobbying plans, best practices, recommendations, step-by-step processes and procedures, and samples. Feel free to send us feedback to provide us with suggestions, ideas, and stories we can add to this toolkit. Contact: Ron Cretaro at 860-525-5080, or e-mail him at .

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A. Advocacy/Lobbying Tools and Resources

• Kit Preamble

• Advocacy vs. Lobbying, Coalition Building and Public Engagement

• Why Lobby